Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

Acting is therapeutic.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

I do find acting cathartic.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.